“The market is starting to heat up,” said Ben Thypin, an analyst at Real Capital Analytics, a commercial-property research company based in New York. “They want to be prepared for when it’s operating at full capacity.”...Lehman frequently partnered with UBS before the financial crisis, making its former employees a good fit for the Zurich- based bank, according to Thypin.

“They did a lot of loans and they did a lot of very large loans,” he said. “The most critical factor of the success of any CMBS operation is the amount of production.”

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